Month: February 2015

Paula Factor 5, you may remember, is positive choice: where women make the decision not to go for a job which is above their current level because they actively prefer to stay doing what they are doing, or to move in a horizontal direction. They don't need the money or the status that a promotion would bring; they feel they are exercising their competences already and/or learning new ones; and they do not want to rise to a level where they might perhaps become examples of the Peter Principle. I've been discussing this with a male friend. He sent me the following: "I know clearly in my own career I…

I've been reading a collection which focusses on how and why men do or don't learn as adults. It's a basic component of the Paula Principle picture that men appear more reluctant to engage in learning, formal and informal, across most OECD countries. The PP looks at the consequences of this (or lack of them) for women ; Men Learning Through Life asks what this reluctance means for men. It is not an exhibition of 'moral panic' about male disadvantage, but a good research-based look at a distinctive issue and what might be done about it. The book draws its inspiration from pioneering studies…

Paula Factor 5, you may remember, is positive choice: where women make the decision not to go for a job which is above their current level because they actively prefer to stay doing what they are doing, or to move in a horizontal direction. They don't need the money or the status that a promotion would bring; they feel they are exercising their competences already and/or learning new ones; and they do not want to rise to a level where they might perhaps become examples of the Peter Principle. I've been discussing this with a male friend. He sent me the following: "I know clearly in my own career I…

I've been reading a collection which focusses on how and why men do or don't learn as adults. It's a basic component of the Paula Principle picture that men appear more reluctant to engage in learning, formal and informal, across most OECD countries. The PP looks at the consequences of this (or lack of them) for women ; Men Learning Through Life asks what this reluctance means for men. It is not an exhibition of 'moral panic' about male disadvantage, but a good research-based look at a distinctive issue and what might be done about it. The book draws its inspiration from pioneering studies…